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Naked ‘Pengci’ Is At It Again – Hopes to Be Hit by Mercedes for Compensation Money

One Weibo netizen posted a picture of a naked man lying in front of a Mercedes in Zhejiang. According to The Paper, the man is known to be a ‘pengci’ fraud – deliberately getting hit by cars and then demanding compensation – who was just released from prison.

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One Weibo netizen posted a picture of a naked man lying in front of a Mercedes in Zhejiang. According to Chinese news site The Paper, the man is known to be a ‘pengci’ fraud – deliberately getting hit by cars and then demanding compensation – who was just released from prison.

On April 10, a man was spotted lying in front of a Mercedez Benz in Wenling County in Zhejiang Province after getting off his bike and taking off his clothes. The Weibo user who initially placed the picture online, Wang Laowu (“王老五回家”), was driving nearby the peculiar situation when he got out of his car to see what was going on.

According to bystanders, the man on the ground was not mentally ill, but a sane man who was looking to earn money through ‘pengci’ (碰瓷), a common type of fraud in China where people deliberatly get involved in accidents, or make it appear as if they were hit by a car, to get financial compensation.

Reporters later understood from the local police station that the man is a 31-year-old from Henan, who was just released from prison a week earlier for ‘pengci’, pretending to be run over by a Toyota. The man was in prison for seven days for his crime.

The female driver of the Mercedes reportedly was shocked by the incident and called the police. It is unclear if the man is currently yet again incarcerated. The reason why the man decided to undress also remains unclear.

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“Seven days was clearly not enough,” one netizen says about the man’s prison sentence. “Please take note that this is someone from Henan,” one Weibo user comments.

Henan province, in central China, does not always have a good reputation, with many having a regional bias against Henan and consider people from the province to be dishonest and deceptive.

Another netizen feels that people from Henan are often negatively portrayed in (social) media: “When a person from Henan does something good, you never remember,” he says: “but when they do something bad, you say that it’s Henan people at it again. The trashy behaviour of one person is not representative for the entire region.”

– By Manya Koetse

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Manya Koetse is the founder and editor-in-chief of whatsonweibo.com. She is a writer, public speaker, and researcher (Sinologist, MPhil) on social trends, digital developments, and new media in an ever-changing China, with a focus on Chinese society, pop culture, and gender issues. She shares her love for hotpot on hotpotambassador.com. Contact at manya@whatsonweibo.com, or follow on Twitter.

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    Richard Jones

    April 16, 2016 at 11:17 pm

    I lost my wallet in a Zhengzhou, Henan taxi. The driver tracked me down by going back to the location where he had picked me up so that he could return it with all cash and credit cards intact. There is good and bad everywhere but it is no worse in Henan than anywhere else and probably better. I doubt i would have ever seen the wallet again if it had happened in Shanghai!

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Tsingtao Brewery ‘Pee-Gate’: Factory Worker Caught Urinating in Raw Material Warehouse

The pee incident, that occurred at a subsidiary Tsingtao Beer factory, has caused concerns among consumers.

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A video that has circulated on Chinese social media since October 19 shows how an alleged worker at a Tsingtao Beer factory climbs over a wall at the raw material production site and starts to urinate.

The incident reportedly occurred at the Tsingtao Beer Factory No. 3, a subsidiary of the Tsingtao Brewing Company, located in Qingdao, Shandong.

After the video went viral, the Tsingtao Brewery Company issued a statement that they took the incident very seriously and immediately report it to the authorities, who have started an investigation into the case. Meanwhile, the specific batch in production has been halted and shut off.

The incident has caused concern among consumers, and some commenters on social media wonder if this was the first time something like this has happened. “How do we know this hasn’t happened many times before?”

Others speculate about what might have motivated the man to urinate at the production site. There are those who believe that the man is part of an undercover operation orchestrated by a rivaling company, aimed at discrediting Tsingtao. It’s even suggested that there were two ‘moles’ leaking in this incident: one doing the urinating, and the other doing the video ‘leak.’

Meanwhile, there are voices who are critical of Tsingtao, suggesting that the renowned beer brand has not effectively addressed the ‘pee gate’ scandal. It remains uncertain how this incident will impact the brand, but some netizens are already expressing reservations about ordering a Tsingtao beer as a result.

But there are also those who joke about the “pissing incident,” wondering if Tsingtao Beer might soon launch a special “urine flavored beer.”

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Streamed Without Realizing: Chinese Village Cadres Suspended after Sex Scene Video Leaks Online

“Village cadres are so hard-working. Besides conducting conferences, they also do live-streaming!”

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Two cadres working in Weicheng District in Shandong Province were suspended this week after an “inappropriate video” that showed them engaging in sexual acts started circulating on Chinese social media.

The two got a bit too cozy together in a meeting room, and the moment allegedly was unknowingly caught on camera after a secretary did not turn the camera off after a video conference.

On October 6, Phoenix News (@凤凰网) reported that the subdistrict office in question denied that such an incident took place in their jurisdiction.

The local Discipline Inspection Commission, however, confirmed that the incident did take place and that the case was under investigation, although they would not confirm which positions the two cadres held. Online, it was claimed that they are a thirty-something male secretary in and a fifty-something female director.

Some Chinese media sources noted that the video in question seems to have been recorded from a security camera system screen, raising questions about whether the two had forgotten about the security cameras, or if they actually forgot to turn off a conference call camera, or if the incident was captured by both the security cameras and the webcam.

On Weibo and other Chinese social media, the incident has caused some banter among netizens.

“At least our Party comrades are now addressing their needs internally without causing harm to society – that could be considered a form of progress,” one popular comment said.

“It’s not bad, it’s just bad that they forgot to turn the webcam off,” others replied.

“Ah, so this is officially what officials do?” others wondered.

“Village cadres are so hard-working. Besides conducting conferences, they also do livestreaming!”

By now, it’s been confirmed by a staff member at the Wangliu St. Office in Weifang that the two individuals involved, both village cadres, have been suspended. They are currently under investigation by the Disciplinary Inspection Committee. By early Saturday, a related hashtag had garnered over 200 million views on Weibo (#两干部流出不雅视频被停职#).

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